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baseball4ev has The Flame in the Flood

22 Jun, 2023 @ 9:52pm

Fix for the raft falling through the river

I encountered a bug about 14 hours into an Endless Run where, after exiting a location and getting into my raft, I'd immediately sink below the surface of the river and then fall forever. The problem persisted after reloading the save which indicated something in the save file was broken. I looked around online and saw a few people who had encountered this, all of which resulted in them needing to start over. I saw some posts from the devs saying they were looking into it but since it's 2023 and the bug still occurs, I can only guess they never figured it out.

Since the prospect of losing 14 hours of progress would have made me uninstall the game, I decided to poke around in the save file and see if I could massage whatever the broken values were into something workable. After about 4 hours of tinkering, I managed to spawn myself in the air, which then had me fall back into the river where I was able to continue on.

This is a pretty easy fix to do, all things considered, so if you've found yourself in the same situation as me, the following guide should get you into a state where you're able to continue.

First things first, go find your broken save, which should be located here:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\RiverGame\Saved\SaveGames\SaveGame.sav

Now, go to your favorite hex editor. I used this one online (it's free): https://hexed.it/
Open up the save file in the editor and do a search for "PlayerPos". Mine was basically at the bottom of the file. You should see something like:
PlayerPos.....StructProperty.............Vector.................<some hex characters here>05 (05 is final hex character and marks the end of the sequence)

There's 12 bytes of hex characters, 4 bytes each for the X Y Z values of your character's position. The last 4 bytes represent your character's vertical position. Because the bug is your spawn is just below the river, we just need to bump up your vertical height a tiny bit so you don't get stuck. So just change the final byte to a slightly higher hex value.

As an example, my vector sequence looked like this:
2B 25 BB C6 0F 2F AB C7 8A 11 DC 42
2B 25 BB C6 = X value
0F 2F AB C7 = Y value
8A 11 DC 42 = Z value
All I did was change the final byte of the Z value (42) to be slightly higher (44). Then, save the modified hex and you should be good to go!

Load back up your save file and you should spawn in the air, then fall back into the river allowing you to continue on.

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The Savior has The Flame in the Flood

4 Nov, 2023 @ 7:12am

its really bad for this game to have such a bug i have same problem playing 9hr Il try this solution thanks for posting.

myxal

2 Dec, 2023 @ 10:47am

I just encountered what I thought was this issue, but perhaps it's not. Upon loading (last save was after departing a location), I can sail on the water for several raft lengths, THEN I begin falling through the water. I tried the hexedit trick, I did get spawned in the air, but I still started falling through the map in the same place as before.

Does the game save while on a raft? I did manage to get a new area notification not long after sinking, but didn't get a new save, and apparently I'm too far from the surface to get location bubbles/opportunities to dock.

Eventually my Scout died of Hypothermia, and according to the map shown in game over, I somehow went outside of the river bounds before the last visited location.

EDIT: Well that was weird. I rolled back the save and, having seen where I went off-course, I paddled back to get back onto the river. (I was in the wasteland area). On the right track, I didn't fall through the river anymore.

Last edited by myxal; 2 Dec, 2023 @ 11:13am

baseball4ev has The Flame in the Flood

6 Dec, 2023 @ 12:59pm

Originally posted by myxal:
I just encountered what I thought was this issue, but perhaps it's not. Upon loading (last save was after departing a location), I can sail on the water for several raft lengths, THEN I begin falling through the water. I tried the hexedit trick, I did get spawned in the air, but I still started falling through the map in the same place as before.

Does the game save while on a raft? I did manage to get a new area notification not long after sinking, but didn't get a new save, and apparently I'm too far from the surface to get location bubbles/opportunities to dock.

Eventually my Scout died of Hypothermia, and according to the map shown in game over, I somehow went outside of the river bounds before the last visited location.

EDIT: Well that was weird. I rolled back the save and, having seen where I went off-course, I paddled back to get back onto the river. (I was in the wasteland area). On the right track, I didn't fall through the river anymore.

Glad you got a workaround! My suggestion would have been to try adjusting your X or Y value to push you past the problematic area. Still add a little bit to the Z value to gain some altitude but then add a bit to the X or Y (I'm not sure which controls the distance down the river as opposed to left or right, so it'd be mild trial and error to see which it was).

To answer the question about saving, the game only saves when you enter a dock location as well as when you leave the dock. It won't save while you're actively on the river

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